Hiya! Oh what a year this has been. I always wanted to reply to this post but then with everything happening it did not seem important anymore.
How are you? Still out there kicking I hope?
I am not much on LJ either anymore. I still have like 5 dedicated friends who comment on the figure pictures but otherwise this is a desert. If I look back what wonderful conversations we used to have. Shame. I am mostly on Twitter these days, having fallen into the Star Trek Voyager World now, deeply, and making new friends. And buying new figures and writing new fanfictions. It has helped me coping with the epidemic and I will be forever grateful for that.
So, Orville. I have a friend who in general always reads episode or movie synopses before watching to avoid bad surprises. I did warn her of this scene in advance so it would not shock her. I wonder if that would be a way for you as well? Because honestly, you stopped right before it got good. I mean, really really good. Middle to end season 2 Orville is on fire, one episode better than the previous, culminating in a wonderful finale. We are still waiting for season 3 (soon, hopefully) so this would be the perfect time to get back into it and be ready for that.
As for Alara, don't worry, she is still out there, even made a guest appearance later. She just went home to live with her parents. If you never saw the ending of "Home", it is a beautiful scene of them all hugging her good-bye, with lots of tears in their eyes, and I think they did not have to act much there. And then Ed returns to his desk and finds a jar of pickles and smiles. I love that scene.
The actress wanted to move on to other things and had a big role in "Prodigal Son".
Episode 4, the one where Teleya returns, is actually one of my favorite. You did not like it? The way she kidnapped Ed but he still was a gentleman with her and even saved her life on the planet when they were stranded? I loved that. And the scene in the end, when he returns to the bridge, his eyes, so sad. Nobody shall ever say again Seth is a bad actor. He blew me away there. That is the episode that made me from a casual watcher into a fan with repeated watchings (because I went back to season 1 where we first met Teleya) and writing fanfictions and watching countless Seth videos, interviews and his wonderful singing I had no idea of.
Everyone agrees that episode 5 (the one with the astrology planet) is the only one bad episode of the whole series. Not very well written, does not make much sense and also has some odd violence at the end with Kelly and Bortus shooting the soldiers.
If you don't want to watch much more, watch at least episode 6 and also episode 11. I beg you. Both are considered probably the best. Both deal with relationships, love, definitely no torture in those, I promise. Just great relationship stuff that touches your heart. Even the guys admit they had some tears in their eyes at the end of episode 11 In episode 6 we even get to see the orchestra that plays the Orville soundtrack music, I love that. Such a great episode from start till finish. I bet you will love it too. It is just round and complete.
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Date: 2021-08-06 04:16 pm (UTC)Hiya! Oh what a year this has been. I always wanted to reply to this post but then with everything happening it did not seem important anymore.
How are you? Still out there kicking I hope?
I am not much on LJ either anymore. I still have like 5 dedicated friends who comment on the figure pictures but otherwise this is a desert. If I look back what wonderful conversations we used to have. Shame. I am mostly on Twitter these days, having fallen into the Star Trek Voyager World now, deeply, and making new friends. And buying new figures and writing new fanfictions. It has helped me coping with the epidemic and I will be forever grateful for that.
So, Orville. I have a friend who in general always reads episode or movie synopses before watching to avoid bad surprises. I did warn her of this scene in advance so it would not shock her. I wonder if that would be a way for you as well? Because honestly, you stopped right before it got good. I mean, really really good. Middle to end season 2 Orville is on fire, one episode better than the previous, culminating in a wonderful finale. We are still waiting for season 3 (soon, hopefully) so this would be the perfect time to get back into it and be ready for that.
As for Alara, don't worry, she is still out there, even made a guest appearance later. She just went home to live with her parents. If you never saw the ending of "Home", it is a beautiful scene of them all hugging her good-bye, with lots of tears in their eyes, and I think they did not have to act much there. And then Ed returns to his desk and finds a jar of pickles and smiles. I love that scene.
The actress wanted to move on to other things and had a big role in "Prodigal Son".
Episode 4, the one where Teleya returns, is actually one of my favorite. You did not like it? The way she kidnapped Ed but he still was a gentleman with her and even saved her life on the planet when they were stranded? I loved that. And the scene in the end, when he returns to the bridge, his eyes, so sad. Nobody shall ever say again Seth is a bad actor. He blew me away there. That is the episode that made me from a casual watcher into a fan with repeated watchings (because I went back to season 1 where we first met Teleya) and writing fanfictions and watching countless Seth videos, interviews and his wonderful singing I had no idea of.
Everyone agrees that episode 5 (the one with the astrology planet) is the only one bad episode of the whole series. Not very well written, does not make much sense and also has some odd violence at the end with Kelly and Bortus shooting the soldiers.
If you don't want to watch much more, watch at least episode 6 and also episode 11. I beg you. Both are considered probably the best. Both deal with relationships, love, definitely no torture in those, I promise. Just great relationship stuff that touches your heart. Even the guys admit they had some tears in their eyes at the end of episode 11 In episode 6 we even get to see the orchestra that plays the Orville soundtrack music, I love that. Such a great episode from start till finish. I bet you will love it too. It is just round and complete.
To be continued in part 2/2